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Also check your bios version. I had similar problems with usb-c and fans on HP Elitebook, they were fixed with bios upgrade.
Edit: I also had troubles waking from sleep. They were caused by wwan/lte modem, I disabled it on bios and now sleep works flawlessly.
Blog makes valid point, but why on earth there would be any current Linux distribution without usr merge?
EDIT: Especially when every major Linux distributions have already implemented usr merge long time ago.
For first-time Linux users, I always recommend one of the main user friendly distributions - it is much easier to ask or look for help this way.
So, Fedora, Ubuntu or Opensuse.
Their installers all can live boot
I think right side is delay timer, and left is runtime. Test it by putting dial just to right, and wait when it reaches zero it should start heating.
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